| NORTHWESTERN WRESTLING: BIG TEN CHAMPIONSHIPS INFORMATION | |||||
| DATE | SESSION | TIME (CT) | LOCATION | BROADCAST | LIVE STATS |
| Saturday, March 5 | Session I | 10 a.m. | Carver-Hawkeye Arena | BTN Plus | TrackWrestling |
| Saturday, March 5 | Session II | 6 p.m. | Carver-Hawkeye Arena | BTN Plus | TrackWrestling |
| Sunday, March 6 | Session III | 12 p.m. | Carver-Hawkeye Arena | BTN Plus | TrackWrestling |
| Sunday, March 6 | Session IV (Finals) | 3 p.m. | Carver-Hawkeye Arena | BTN BTN2Go | TrackWrestling |
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2016 Big Ten Championships Home
EVANSTON, Ill. – Northwestern will look to continue its recent March success when it heads to the Big Ten Championships hosted by Iowa at Carver-Hawkeye Arena in Iowa City, Iowa. The championships mark the beginning of the postseason for the Wildcats and will run from Saturday, March 6 to Sunday, March 7.
Each of the 10 Wildcats competing will seek to punch their ticket to the NCAA championships at Madison Square Garden in New York City beginning Thursday, March 17.
Fans unable to make it Iowa City this weekend can watch Chicago's Big Ten Team from home. The first three sessions will be streamed live on BTN Plus, while the finals will be televised live on the Big Ten Network.
The complete schedule for the 2016 Big Ten championships is as follows:
Saturday, March 6
8:30 a.m. – Carver-Hawkeye Arena opens
10 a.m. – Session I
6 p.m. – Session II
Sunday, March 7
10:30 a.m. – Carver-Hawkeye Arena opens
12 p.m. – Session III
3 p.m. – Session IV (Finals)
*All Times Central
Four Wildcats Receive Pre-Seeds
• The Big Ten released its list of championship pre-seeds on Monday, and the Wildcats received four. Dominick Malone (9), Jameson Oster (4), Jason Tsirtsis (4) and Mitch Sliga (10) will head into the 2016 championships seeded at their respective weight classes.
• The pre-seeds, as voted on the by the conference's coaches, rank the top wrestlers in each weight class depending on the number of NCAA championship qualifier allocations in those classes. Offical seeding will be announced after the coaches meeting takes place on Friday, March 4 before the championships get underway.
Back-to-Back
• Northwestern junior Jason Tsirtsis is two-for-two at the Big Ten championships at 149 lbs. He won as a freshman in 2014 and again as a sophomore last season. He will seek to become just the third Northwestern wrestler all-time to win three Big Ten titles. Wes Brown (1931-33) and Jake Herbert (2006-07, 09) are the others.
• Tsirtsis beat Iowa's Brandon Sorensen, 2-1, last year in the final and took down Nebraska's Jake Sueflohn, 6-2, as a freshman. Sorensen is No. 2 this year, while Sueflohn is No. 3.
Senior Send-Off
• Three Wildcat seniors - Garrison White, Dominick Malone and Jameson Oster - will wrestle for the final time at the Big Ten championships. Each of them are making their fourth appearance. White placed eighth in 2015, while Malone was eighth in 2014 and 11th in 2015. Oster finished seventh a year ago.
NCAA Presence
• Northwestern has qualified no fewer than five wrestlers to the NCAA championships over the last five seasons. The Wildcats have sent six in three of the past four years.